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- Title
Clinically-staged T3N0 rectal cancer: is preoperative chemoradiotherapy the optimal treatment?
- Authors
Lombardi, Raffaele; Cuicchi, Dajana; Pinto, Carmine; Di Fabio, Francesca; Iacopino, Bruno; Neri, Stefano; Tardio, Maria Lucia; Ceccarelli, Claudio; Lecce, Ferdinando; Ugolini, Giampaolo; Pini, Sara; Di Tullio, Piergiorgio; Taffurelli, Mario; Minni, Francesco; Martoni, Andrea; Cola, Bruno
- Abstract
Preoperative chemoradiotherapy has been widely adopted as the standard of care for stage II-III rectal cancers. However, patients with T3N0 lesions had been shown to have a better prognosis than other categories of locally advanced tumor. Thus, neoadjuvant chemoradiation is likely to be overtreatment in this subgroup of patients. Nevertheless, the low accuracy rate of preoperative staging techniques for detection of node-negative tumors does not allow to check this hypothesis. We analyzed a group of patients with cT3N0 low rectal cancer who underwent neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy with the purpose of evaluating the incidence of metastatic nodes in the resected specimens.
- Publication
Annals of surgical oncology, 2010, Vol 17, Issue 3, p838
- ISSN
1534-4681
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1245/s10434-009-0796-7